Ronnie Screwvala, Vicky Kaushal Reteam For Bollywood Sci-Fi Epic ‘Ashwatthama’ (EXCLUSIVE)

SAG-AFTRA hasn’t expelled a member since its merger nearly a decade ago, and before that neither union had done it since 2002. While most disciplinary hearings contemplating other severe penalties involve violations of Global Rule 1 — the restriction against working on non-union projects — it’s a threat to members’ safety that has prompted the organization to take such a step now.On Jan.

After an impressive start at India’s box office, the Tamil-language film Master has hit Amazon Prime Video across the globe, and looks set to maintain the star power of leading actor Vijay. Two years after playing a charismatic soccer coach in Bigil, Vijay dances into the role of a charismatic professor in Master.

Naman Ramachandran Top Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan is set to star in the Indian adaptation of John Le Carré’s spy drama “The Night Manager,” Variety can reveal.Roshan will play an Indian version of the Jonathan Pine character, who was played by Tom Hiddleston (“Avengers: Endgame”) in the 2016 adaptation, which aired on the BBC and AMC, and was produced by The Ink Factory.The Indian adaptation is produced by Banijay Asia and will start shooting in Mumbai in April, with international locations

Naman Ramachandran Indian actor Manoj Bajpayee will star in investigative thriller film “Despatch,” directed by Kanu Behl and produced by Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP. “The film unfolds in the world of crime journalism and Bajpayee plays a character who finds himself sucked into the murky underbelly of business and crime.Bajpayee, one of India’s most respected actors, has won best actor at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards twice, for “Aligarh” and “Bhonsle.” Behl’s debut feature “Titli” bowed at Cannes

England fans can look forward to watching Joe Root’s side take on India in the Test series that begins next Friday with global rights holder Star Sports in advanced negotiations with several broadcasters including Channel 4 for a UK deal. With no broadcaster willing to meet Star’s £20million asking price it had been feared that the Disney-owned company would opt to show the four-match series on their Hotstar streaming platform.

Naman Ramachandran Jasmila Zbanic’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” the Bosnia and Herzegovina entry in the Academy Awards’ international feature category, will open the 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).Mira Nair will deliver the annual G. Aravindan memorial lecture, an event named for the pioneering filmmaker from the south Indian state of Kerala who died in 1991.

After opening as the No. 1 film worldwide over India’s harvest festival weekend earlier this month, Tamil action thriller Master is making its way to Amazon Prime Video on Friday, January 29. From that date, the film will be available to Amazon Prime members in India and across 240 countries and territories.

direct to your inboxA thug who beat up his former headmaster is back behind bars for dealing drugs from his house in Rochdale.Jermaine Bullen, 37, left Kieran Heakin unconscious and lying in a pool of blood after he delivered countless punches and kicks to his head. He was locked up indefinitely for public protection in 2010 for the attack inside an Indian restaurant.

Naman Ramachandran Newly formed cinema collective Indian Women Rising has boarded Student Academy Award-winning short film “Bittu” as presenter. IWR will shepherd the film through its Oscar campaign.Based on a real life incident from 2013, “Bittu” is based on the story of a close friendship between two girls (played by Rani Kumari and Renu Kumari) in northern India that is eclipsed by an accidental poisoning at school.

Cookbook author and television writer Sri Rao debuted his first theater showBollywood Kitchenas part of the Geffen Playhouse’s virtual Geffen Stayhouse series on Saturday night.The production is part storytelling in which he shares tales of his parent’s journeys from India to the United States and part cooking class.

Paapa Essiedu, a breakout star of BBC/HBO series I May Destroy You, is to headline a Sky action thriller that uses a similar narrative device to Groundhog Day and is written by Joe Barton, the newly-unveiled showrunner on HBO Max’s The Batman.

Southern Charm universe and right into a love triangle, caught up in Madison LeCroy and Austen Kroll's relationship, which most of their friends describe as «toxic.» Season 7 started with Pringle flirting with Madison, who was starting to pull away from Austen.

Naman Ramachandran Nithin Lukose’s Malayalam-language “Paka: The River of Blood,” Chhatrapal Ninawe’s Marathi-language “Ghaath” (Ambush) and Sreejith Karanavar’s Konkani-language “Aiz Maka Falea Tuka” (Today Me Tomorrow You) were among the winners at India’s Film Bazaar project market that concluded on Thursday.“Paka” and “Ghaath” were presented in the Work in Progress lab strand of the Bazaar, while “Aiz Maka Falea Tuka” was in the Film Bazaar Recommends strand.The projects won digital

Ramin Bahrani, the Iranian-American filmmaker, started out small, with the simple story of a pushcart vendor, a Pakistani immigrant selling coffee and doughnuts in New York, in 2005’s “Man Push Cart.” In the years since, his films have steadily grown in scale and melodrama, but they’ve stayed resolutely within the gap separating rich and poor.Bahrani’s last film, 2014’s “99 Homes” — a movie dedicated to Roger Ebert, who championed Bahrani’s early work — plunged into the heart of the Great

Manori Ravindran International EditorDrafthouse Films is stepping back into the world of distribution after a five-year hiatus with the North American co-release of India’s Oscar entry, “Jallikattu.”The company — which is the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema — is partnering with XYZ Films, which picked up the phantasmagorical “Jallikattu” for North America back in December.

Gina Torres is first on the scene on 9-1-1: Lone Star.The alum reunites with producer Tim Minear, co-creator on the spinoff, on season 2 of Fox's first responder drama as Paramedic Captain Tommy Vega, who returns to the field eight years after stepping away to raise her twin daughters. When COVID-19 causes her husband's restaurant to close, Tommy returns to Austin, Texas, and re-enters the workforce to help support her family.

Naman Ramachandran A.R. Rahman, the Oscar-, BAFTA-, Golden Globe- and Grammy-winning Indian composer of “Slumdog Millionaire,” is set to return to Hollywood projects after a hiatus.Rahman’s mother Kareema Begum was ailing for eight years, and Rahman and his family decided to spend as much time with her in India as possible.

Naman Ramachandran Saif Ali Khan is one of the few Indian actors who is a bona fide Bollywood star while at the same time being a titan of the streaming space, and a producer as well.Khan was one of the stars of “Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior,” the highest Bollywood grosser of 2020 with $50 million before coronavirus devastated the theatrical business.

, the studio's first offering on Disney+, sees the beet-hued synthezoid (Paul Bettany) and his witchy other half, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), get up to all sorts of hijinks and ensuing hilarity through the prism of classic sitcoms.The series bops along from era to era to era — and from and to and — as a Marvel-sized mystery unfurls around Wanda and Vision about how and why they've found themselves in this small screen reality.

Twitter.The as-yet-unnamed baby — the couple’s first child — arrived nearly three years after Sharma and Kohli married in a low-key ceremony in Italy in December 2017 after being in a relationship for several years.Kohli, 32, is one of the world’s top batsmen. He was with the national team in an ongoing tour to Australia but returned to India in December after taking paternity leave and missing the second, third and fourth matches.